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Report on an Indian Islamist Entity —The Popular Front of India (a front of Social Democratic Party of India) | Meghana Choukkar

2 May

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The Popular Front of India and Muslim Responses to Hindu Nationalism

by Meghana Choukkar

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On September 27, 2022, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification declaring the Popular Front of India (PFI) an “unlawful association” under the country’s most stringent anti-terror law, effectively banning PFI and its affiliates for five years.1 The government said PFI was a “major threat to internal security” and alleged that the organization was involved in terror financing, had links to global terrorist groups such as the Islamic State (IS) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and was radicalizing “a particular section of society.” [. . . ]

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